Heterogeneous Quality Firms And Trade Costs

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Heterogeneous Quality Firms And Trade Costs

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Author : Matthias Helble
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Heterogeneous Quality Firms And Trade Costs written by Matthias Helble and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.

Heterogeneous Quality Firms And Trade Costs

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Author : Matthias Helble
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Heterogeneous Quality Firms And Trade Costs written by Matthias Helble and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.

Essays On Firm Heterogeneity And Quality In International Trade

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Author : Eddy Bekkers
language : en
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Release Date : 2008

Essays On Firm Heterogeneity And Quality In International Trade written by Eddy Bekkers and has been published by Rozenberg Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.

The thesis is organized as follows. Chapter 2 contains a survey of the three most in‡fluential models on fi…rm heterogeneity and of the most important empirical work on firrm heterogeneity. The chapter starts with a brief review of the homogeneous productivity imperfect competition literature. Chapter 2 …finishes with a comparison of the three most in‡fluential models of fi…rm heterogeneity and the oligopoly model put forward in the thesis. Chapter 3 addresses exporting uncertainty under heterogeneous popularity. Chapter 4 contains the chapter on …firm heterogeneity under oligopoly. Chapter 5 constitutes the models on …firm heterogeneity and endogenous quality. Chapter 6 points out the within-sector specialization model. Chapter 7 addresses the effect of importer characteristics on unit values and the role of markups and quality to explain this effect. Chapter 8 concludes.

Heterogeneous Firms And Import Quality

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Author : Benjamin R. Mandel
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2010-11

Heterogeneous Firms And Import Quality written by Benjamin R. Mandel and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Business & Economics categories.

A key emerging insight in international econ. is that the scope for quality differentiation can help to explain patterns in export prices at the level of products or firms. In this paper, a unified theoretical framework of firm heterogeneity in cost and quality is brought to bear on an expansive data set of U.S. import transaction prices. The higher moments of the price distribution are used to identify the scope for quality differentiation at the detailed product level. The product classification is then used to evaluate two claims in the nascent firm-level trade quality lit. First, the positive link between exporter capability and price is found to depend on the nature of the product. Second, a time series test documents firm sorting into export markets according to output quality. Illus.

What Is Firm Heterogeneity In Trade Models

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Author : Colin Hottman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014

What Is Firm Heterogeneity In Trade Models written by Colin Hottman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Business enterprises categories.

We estimate a structural model of heterogeneous multiproduct firms to examine the sources of firm heterogeneity emphasized in the recent trade and macro literatures. Using Nielsen barcode data on prices and sales, we estimate elasticities of substitution within and between firms, and use the estimated model to recover unobserved qualities, marginal costs and markups. We find that variation in firm quality and product scope explains at least four fifths of the variation in firm sales. Most firms are well approximated by the monopolistic competition benchmark of constant markups, but the largest firms that account for most of aggregate sales depart substantially from this benchmark. Although the output of multiproduct firms is differentiated, cannibalization is quantitatively important for the largest firms. This imperfect substitutability of products within firms, and the fact that larger firms supply more products than smaller firms, implies that standard productivity measures are not independent of demand system assumptions and probably dramatically understate the relative productivity of the largest firms.

Product Quality And Firm Heterogeneity In International Trade

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Author : Antoine Gervais
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

Product Quality And Firm Heterogeneity In International Trade written by Antoine Gervais and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.

I develop and implement a methodology for obtaining plant-level estimates of product quality from revenue and physical output data. Intuitively, firms that sell large quantities of output conditional on price are classified as high quality producers. I use this method to decompose cross-plant variation in price and export status into a quality and an efficiency margin. The empirical results show that prices are increasing in quality and decreasing in efficiency. However, selection into exporting is driven mainly by quality. The finding that changes in quality and efficiency have different impact on the firm's export decision is shown to be inconsistent with the traditional iceberg trade cost formulation and points to the importance of per unit transport costs.

Markups Quality And Trade Costs

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Author : Natalie Chen
language : en
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Release Date : 2020-02-21

Markups Quality And Trade Costs written by Natalie Chen and has been published by International Monetary Fund this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-21 with Business & Economics categories.

We investigate theoretically and empirically how exporters adjust their markups across destinations depending on bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per unit, our model predicts that markups rise with distance and fall with tariffs, but these effects are heterogeneous and are smaller in magnitude for higher quality exports. We find strong support for the predictions of the model using a unique data set of Argentinean firm-level wine exports combined with experts wine ratings as a measure of quality.

Comparative Advantage And Heterogeneous Firms

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Author : Andrew B. Bernard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Comparative Advantage And Heterogeneous Firms written by Andrew B. Bernard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Diversification in industry categories.

This paper presents a model of international trade that features heterogeneous firms, relative endowment differences across countries, and consumer taste for variety. The paper demonstrates that firm reactions to trade liberalization generate endogenous Ricardian productivity responses at the industry level that magnify countries' comparative advantage. Focusing on the wide range of firm-level reactions to falling trade costs, the model also shows that, as trade costs fall, firms in comparative advantage industries are more likely to export, that relative firm size and the relative number of firms increases more in comparative advantage industries and that job turnover is higher in comparative advantage industries than in comparative disadvantage industries.

Falling Trade Costs Heterogeneous Firms And Industry Dynamics

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Falling Trade Costs Heterogeneous Firms And Industry Dynamics written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.

Zeros Quality And Space

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Author : Richard E. Baldwin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Zeros Quality And Space written by Richard E. Baldwin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Exports categories.

Product-level data on bilateral U.S. exports exhibit two strong patterns. First, most potential export flows are not present, and the incidence of these "export zeros" is strongly correlated with distance and importing country size. Second, export unit values are positively related to distance. We show that every well-known multi-good general equilibrium trade model is inconsistent with at least some of these facts. We also offer direct statistical evidence of the importance of trade costs in explaining zeros, using the long-term decline in the relative cost of air shipment to identify a difference-in-differences estimator. To match these facts, we propose a new version of the heterogeneous-firms trade model pioneered by Melitz (2003). In our model, high quality firms are the most competitive, with heterogeneous quality increasing with firms' heterogeneous cost.